Agreed, at this current time, PvE is falling behind and from what i remember Admin did mention that there will be no significant changes on the PvE Server.
This would be a mistake, as a small amount of the current community goes to PvE for relaxation and having fun killing NPC's with friends.
On a different note, please give PvE Server the GROUP JOIN mechanics for battles, its painful to tag say a 3rd rate + 3 fleet or +5, and you're buddy's don't get the same starting possibility as you, instead they have to join the "Combat Circle" <--- This has already been implemented on the PvP server, where as if u are a group of X amount of players, what ever you tag, (within the circle) the group members gets dragged inn. This is a feature that is direly needed.
I totally agree on how Port Bonuses is still un-balanced in a way, but leaving out the PvE server when they 2 are your customers/players. Is quite frankly wrong, in case you guys haven't checked recently, PvE player base has slowly built up to a stable 80 - 120 player on average a day, as PvP is at 300 - 650 (some days even 700 players!)
Please do not leave out your players on the PvE Server.